San Fran’s Top Dance Award Goes To Circus Aerialist

Two women shared the individual performance honors at San Francisco’s Isadora Duncan Dance Awards (the “Izzies”) this week. One was San Francisco Ballet principal dancer Maria Kochetkova; the other was Circo Zero aerialist Emily Leap. Keith Hennessy, Circo’s director, said this was probably the first time the award had gone “to a trapeze artist who did a three-man-high with two men standing on her.”